Flip your Classroom

A growing trend in education is the Flipped Classroom.  When an educator flips their classroom they shift the way students learn the material.  Instead of spending class time lecturing and having students take notes, they give students resources to learn the materials at home.  They assign students, readings, provide them with podcasts to listen to or videos to watch, etc.  Students must come to class prepared.  Class time is spent doing things like discussing materials with peers, answering questions about what they know, and arguing their point.  Professors circulate and help students with information that they do not understand.  To gain a better insight on the flipped classroom read this article from The Chronicle of Higher Education How "Flipping" the Classroom Can Improve the Traditional Lecture  


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